This video features making chicken and gravy in a cast iron pot along with making “cat-head” biscuits. It’s quick, easy, and makes a great meal! Enjoy!
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Chicken and Gravy in a Cast Iron Pot Video
Posted in Cast Iron Cooking, Cooking, cooking videos, farm videos, Life on the Farm, Recipes, Uncategorized, tagged cast iron, chicken recipes, cooking in cast iron, cooking videos, farm cooking, farm life, quick and easy on September 20, 2019| Leave a Comment »
How to Cheat at Pickles
Posted in Canning, Gardening, Life on the Farm, Recipes, Uncategorized, tagged canning, farm life, green tomato pickles, pickle recipes, pickles, quick and easy on June 27, 2015| 4 Comments »
I bet I have a jillion pickle recipes – well, maybe not a jillion, but a hundred, anyway. My mother was an expert pickler (is that a word?) and I have all her recipes plus all the recipes in all the canning books I have (did I mention that I collect canning books?)
I have made 14 day pickles, 7 day pickles, crunchy green tomato pickles, bread and butter pickles, icicle pickles, no-name pickles and relishes of all kinds.
This year, however, I have been under a great time constraint due to a deadline for a writing assignment looming. So – I have had plenty of cucumbers to eat on, but no time to make pickles!
Today I decided to take a few hours to make pickles. A “few hours”? Yes, I cheated. And this is why (besides “time”).
Even though I have made all kinds of pickles, I’d never been able to get a dill pickle that was as good as good ole store-bought hamburger dills (which is what my husband loves on his burgers).
Last year I noticed these Ball Kosher Dill and Bread and Butter mixes at the grocery store.
So I decided to try the Dill mix and WOW! It was delicious! This year I also bought the Bread and Butter mix, and loved it as well. It is so quick and easy that it absolutely feels like cheating!
So – here’s today’s adventure.
First we picked cucumbers.
Then I scrubbed them and sliced a bowl full.
I missed getting a picture of the mixture, but just follow the directions on the label.
Next fill the jars, and waterbath for 15 minutes.
Next I decided to make some sweet pickle relish using the Bread and Butter mix (a recipe is merely a suggestion – right?)
I used cucumbers, an orange and a yellow bell pepper, and a purple onion. I chopped them, filled jars and waterbathed.
It’s pretty, whether it’s any good or not!
Next I did a turn of dill chunks and then threw all the extras in a bowl with all the leftover mix (dill and bread and butter together). That should be an interesting taste! HA!
All in all, not a bad job for 4 hours!
They’ll really be good this winter, too!
Newman Valley 